{"id":26237,"date":"2024-04-08T20:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-bust-tricycle-stealing-syndicate-in-enugu\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:03:47","slug":"police-bust-tricycle-stealing-syndicate-in-enugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-bust-tricycle-stealing-syndicate-in-enugu\/","title":{"rendered":"Police bust tricycle-stealing syndicate in Enugu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Enugu State Police Command has busted a tricycle-stealing syndicate operating in states in the South East.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, in Enugu on Monday, said that they had arrested two suspected members of the syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>Ndukwe said that the feat was achieved by the command\u2019s detectives, serving in Central Police Station Enugu, with support from Neighbourhood Watch Group members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael Okorie, 18, and Christian Okorie, 19, both male and of Onicha Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, were on April 5, 2024, at about 11 am, arrested by<\/p>\n<p>detectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were arrested at Mbanugo Street within the Coal Camp axis of Enugu metropolis, and a stolen yellow-coloured TVC tricycle recovered from them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon interrogation, the suspects confessed to having been committing the criminal act of stealing in Ebonyi and Enugu states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey further confessed to having stolen the recovered tricycle from where it was parked on April 4, 2024, during a wake, and were in the process of selling it before they were apprehended,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the suspects will be arraigned and prosecuted once investigations are concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Police bust tricycle-stealing syndicate in Enugu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enugu State Police Command has busted a tricycle-stealing syndicate operating in states in the South East. A statement by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1757,384,15,310],"tags":[137,387,180,99],"class_list":["post-26237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enugu","category-metro","category-news","category-police","tag-enugu","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}